{"id":291,"date":"2018-11-16T19:34:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=291"},"modified":"2018-11-16T19:34:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:34:55","slug":"downsizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/downsizing\/","title":{"rendered":"Downsizing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Downsizing<\/strong><br \/>\nElectric hedge trimmer that I forgot I had,<br \/>\nscythe I got from a friend and never used,<br \/>\nold saw and machete:<\/p>\n<p>taking them to the Swap Shop wasn&#8217;t hard<br \/>\nalong with the clothes that don&#8217;t fit<br \/>\nor haven&#8217;t been worn in years.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures rescued from old trunks, some still in their<br \/>\nold frames, these will be tearfully dispatched,<br \/>\neven though I don&#8217;t know who they are.<br \/>\nJewelry from my father I&#8217;ve never worn.<br \/>\nWho will want all this?<\/p>\n<p>Not the nephew nor the niece (she is taking the china),<br \/>\nnot strangers in an antique store or moving sale.<br \/>\nOwl pictures from my brother, pictures I have taken,<br \/>\nmore than enough to cover all the walls&#8211;these I will<br \/>\nkeep, the others, maybe I will ask you<br \/>\nto take them to the dump.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Raven&#8217;s Perch  2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Downsizing Electric hedge trimmer that I forgot I had, scythe I got from a friend and never used, old saw and machete: taking them to the Swap Shop wasn&#8217;t hard along with the clothes that don&#8217;t fit or haven&#8217;t been worn in years. Pictures rescued from old trunks, some still in their old frames, these&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/downsizing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Downsizing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-published-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}